Seeds of Doubt: A Crime Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.90 (621 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B000FC2QC8 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 185 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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Excellent legal thriller A Customer Thirty years ago in Vivian, Colorado, four years old Freddie Gant disappeared; his body was ultimately found by a grain elevator. The police deduce that someone shoved him off the top of it. Attention focuses on twelve years old Rachel Boyd, who eventually was arrested and found guilty by a jury. She recently was paroled and lives with her brother Chris, a wealthy banker.When the six years old son of Chris' gardener vanishes, everyone looks towards Rachel. When his corpse is found near Denver, attention again focuses on Rachel. Besides her history, she was seen with Benj. "An Advocate for Literacy" according to Laura. Jackie Flowers, the lawyer with dyslexia is back again! She is defending someone she remembers hearing about in the news when she was in grade school. Rachael Boyd was paroled from prison after An Advocate for Literacy Jackie Flowers, the lawyer with dyslexia is back again! She is defending someone she remembers hearing about in the news when she was in grade school. Rachael Boyd was paroled from prison after 30 years. She was convicted of the thrill murder of a young playmate.A six-year-old boy is missing from a mansion near the Denver Country Club, and Boyd is under suspicion. The boy is the son of a prominent banker who happens to be Boyd's brother. Not only does Jackie Flowers take her case, she also brings Boyd into her home as a condition of her client's release on bail.If that i. 0 years. She was convicted of the thrill murder of a young playmate.A six-year-old boy is missing from a mansion near the Denver Country Club, and Boyd is under suspicion. The boy is the son of a prominent banker who happens to be Boyd's brother. Not only does Jackie Flowers take her case, she also brings Boyd into her home as a condition of her client's release on bail.If that i. "Another Fine Jackie Flowers Mystery" according to S. Lang. "Seeds of Doubt" is another fine book in the Jackie Flowers series by Stephanie Kane. Flowers is a criminal defense attorney whose dyslexia gives her difficulty with the written word. Kane has no such problem. Her writing is descriptive yet spare, her characters complete and her plots deft and deep.Flowers - as would any good fictional lead character of the genre - always takes cases that simply cannot be won. In this book, her client is a woman convicted three decades earlier of killing a playmate. Recently released from prison, she's accused of a similar crime. And the
Could it be just a coincidence that the gardener's child, Benjamin Sparks, is found dead in circumstances somewhat similar to the Freddie Gant murder? Against her better instincts, Jackie accepts Rachel's case. Everyone deserves a good defense. After three decades in reform school and adult prison, Rachel is finally free. Jackie wants desperately to embrace her client's innocence and believe what Rachel tells her. Convicted child killers are not her favorite clients. Rachel's influence on her may be dangerous in more ways than one. Can she trust her enough to invite her into her home to stay while she prepares for trial? And what about Lily, the child next door whom Jackie loves as her own? Just kicked out of boarding school, she's facing a rocky adolescence. Thirty years ago, Rachel Boyd was just a child herself when she was found guilty of killing her little playmate, Freddie Gant. As Jackie fights to prove Rachel's innocence, she must struggle with challenges both inside and outside the courtroom: her dyslexia, which makes it tough to be a lawyer, especia
Was her own transformation a fraud, all the devices that made her successful in court a sham?" Insightful moments like this mark Flowers as more than just another shrewd criminal defense lawyer. From Publishers Weekly A dead six-year-old child named Benjamin Sparks; his troubled aunt, Rachel Boyd, just out of prison after serving 30 years for killing a playmate; a powerful and believably dysfunctional Denver banking family all add up to business as usual for defense attorney Jackie Flowers in Kane's taut and thoughtful third crime novel about the dyslexic lawyer (after Extreme Indifference and Blind Spot). All rights reserved. The best thing about Kane's books is that Jackie's dyslexia is no mere gimmick: the condition colors her life and courtroom work and makes her searches for truth and justice harder and more c